Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aftermath of one of the most extraordinary periods of liberal legislation, liberal electoral victories, and the liberal dominance of the media of public opinion that we have ever experienced. This was moreover accompanied by the greatest economic expansion in human history. And to top it all, some of the worst violence of all occurred in Detroit, a city with one of the most liberal and successful administrations in the nation; a city further, in which it might generally be agreed that the social and economic position of the Negro was far and away the best in the nation...
...success after suffering some fumbles at the outset. Against more difficult odds because of recent costly land acquisitions, Shipping Tycoon Daniel Ludwig's Westlake Village near the San Fernando Valley and Mortgage Banker James W. Rouse's Columbia near Baltimore are also making a quick start. "The worst that can happen to us," insists Rouse, "is that we'll get rich slowly...
...Communist troops suddenly opened fire with machine guns and mortars on Indian soldiers laying wire at the 14,000-ft.-high Natu Pass. The Indians fired back, and for four days gunfire and cannonades echoed through the thin Himalayan air, causing numerous casualties on both sides. It was the worst Sino-Indian border incident since the Chinese invasion...
...with every bungalow, are adding new space. All over town, from the Tequila a Go-Go to the Paradiso, night life is a throbbing pandemonium. But there is another side to Aca pulco that the gay, sunny travel posters ignore: the resort city is one of Mexico's worst centers of crime...
...Pullaway, red rover and, after the first snow, fox and geese. Homer McClarty, now an affluent well driller in Kalispell, still boasts of how his "big yellow dog Snipe" attended school with him every day for seven years, huddled close to the stove with the kids on the worst days and really deserved "a graduation certificate...